NASA's Juno spacecraft has delivered a phenomenal picture of the Jupiter ... into orbit to expand its global internet network. The Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage returned to Earth, landing ...

Hot Jupiters, similar in mass to Jupiter, orbit very close to their star, much closer than Mercury is to the Sun. They can't form close to the star due to insufficient gas and dust, so they form ...

Hot Jupiters are giant planets initially known to orbit alone close to their ... It not only contains a Hot Jupiter but also an inner Super-Earth and an icy giant planet. These results are ...

Research and development is underway to create robots that can hunt for signs of life in the vast oceans that exist under the ...

More objects are being launched into space than ever, and most are headed for low Earth orbit. This region of space has become increasingly crowded with launches from SpaceX and others that have ...

However, Chiron was classified as an asteroid. It moves around Jupiter and Neptune through one orbit that is extremely unstable. Studying Chiron is particularly difficult because of such ...

The International Space Station (ISS) orbits high above our heads, yet the pull of Earth's gravity never hauls the complex out of orbit and sends ... The size and shape of this curve depends ...

She mapped our solar system's "alternate fate" had it housed an extra planet between Mars and Jupiter ... Earth's mass to 10 Earth masses. With each mass, she modeled 2 million years of orbit ...

So I grabbed my camera, ran outside, and looked up just as Mars was supposed to emerge from the Moon's curved horizon. Seen ...

The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...